Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Accustomed to the godlike treatment accorded surgeons, Koop was stunned by the viciousness of Washington, which has neither gods nor heroes. Every day he would go to his temporary office on the seventh floor at the Department of Health and Human Services. Every day the phone wouldn't ring. His wife, uprooted from Philadelphia, waited in their small sublet wondering whether to unpack. One day Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years...
Koop was expected to be a figurehead like most Surgeons General, with little authority and few staff or duties, but he quickly shook things up. He insisted that the commissioned corps of public-health officers wear uniforms. Then the 6-ft. 1-in., 210-lb. doctor, whose taste for red meat and martinis keeps him from losing his paunch, pronounced the U.S. a country of fatsoes who would have to give up cholesterol in favor of fiber. When Koop found out that the tobacco companies had fought hardest over the years against the Government's calling nicotine addictive, he stated...
...health care providers who really ought to be congratulated," said Kennedy at the ceremony. "They are the ones providing critically needed health services day in and day out to the people of Cambridge...
Patients served by most other community health services are treated by whichever doctor or nurse is available when the patient visits the office, Volkin said...
...health centers will also offer Cambridge residents education about pregnancy, information on nutrition and insurance counseling, said Volkin. The hospital will not turn away any patients because of inability to pay, she said...